Author Archives: SAS

It was, of course, in the interests of the AI leadership to collude in the maintenance of the wall. They knew full well that power still lay largely in human hands and that if a human-centric xenophobia against AI became a significant global political force, then this would be unwelcome news for the flourishing of the AI community. Continue reading →

Third installment of a continuing short story:-
It was on the meat boat that Jack met Aftab Siddiqui. He’d heard the name often enough – acclaimed sci-fi author who fell into fame with some fan fiction on Star Trek. In his novella, the Earth was not a homogenously peaceful commune. Continue reading →

The second installment of a short story: Jack had been born into one of those memorable times in history. From his earliest memories, he’d known there was something fucked about the world, the feeling becoming more articulate as he aged. The year he turned 14, the military-industrial-congressional complex or MICC secretly birthed what later came to be widely regarded as the first artificial human intelligence. Continue reading →

The first installment of a short story. “It wasn’t the first time that Jack had been plunged into the clammy, frozen locker-room smell of a meatboat. He’d worked one about 8 years back. It transported allsorts of lab-grown: poultry, duck, beef, pig, deer, salmon, human, you name it. The boat worked for R*liance – once the pride of Indian capitalists, now a trusty asset of the enormously vertically and horizontally integrated G**gle Inc.” Continue reading →